By Iain Manley In February this year, a group of realtors who specialize in selling to mainland China were taken on a helicopter tour of White Rock, Canada. White Rock, population 18,755, is a modest, seaside town near Vancouver, but the realtors were treated like captains of industry.

By Claire van den Heever Lavish seafood dinners, shopping sprees on Orchard Road, and even Durian puffs – choux pastry with a cream filling made from Asia’s smelliest fruit: peculiar as it may sound, they all help to seal the deal on property purchases in Singapore.

By Claire van den Heever Lavish seafood dinners, shopping sprees on Orchard Road, and even Durian puffs – choux pastry with a cream filling made from Asia’s smelliest fruit: peculiar as it may sound, they all help to seal the deal on property purchases in Singapore.